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Originally posted by Overlord
Currently I live in a nation where there is no Death Penalty...Canada. I must say, the brutality of the crimes and the laughable sentences here grow by the day. It is shocking to turn on the news at night and hear of someone murdering someone else and only getting 10 years in prison, or something like that.
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You can have heavy punishments and still not need capital punishment.
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I'm not sure if this was brodcasted much in the United States, but in Toronto last month, a little girl ( 10 years old, I believe) was walking home from a friends house, needless to say she never made it back home. In fact her body parts were found scattered between several duffle bags. The worst part of this whole story is that the &*$# that killed that innocent little girl, will likely live until he is 75 or 80 years old, even though he was caught.
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Is living behind bars until 75 or 80 year olds really living? Do you think he's getting off easy?
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That my friends is the justice system in Canada, I'm not proposing that the cop's begin walking around with machine guns and start shooting up people that steal a chocolate bar...but I am suggesting that those f*ckers that are convicted of these horendous crimes, do not live to see another sunset.
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I agree that scum like the killer of that 10 year old girl should die. But are you absolutely sure that you got the right scum? Perhaps some new forensic technique arises in 10-20 years that irrefutably demonstrates that that killer is completely innocent. It's happened plenty of times here in the U.S.; convincted "killers" later turning out to be innocent through DNA testing, etc. Sure, 20 years of your life completely wasted is irreplacable but you can at least partially correct a mistake when you've just put him away for life in jail. That's impossible to do if you had exectuted him. The reality is that our justice systems aren't infalliable. And accordingly they should not be allowed to make irrevocable decisions such as executing someone.